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Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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26. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... like you might find in a CSI investigation. Faith comes from a place of trust inside of you, based on feelings, intuition, and awareness of something inside of you that is in touch with something beyond our physical realm. How do you know Jesus is there? You ... see him with your mind, your heart, your spirit, your intuition. You know he is there. You can feel him. You can see him with your eyes closed. And seeing is believing. Why was ...

27. The Hidden City

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in a whole different way. This heightened awareness is a different kind of seeing. When Jesus tells us, we need to be “born of the Spirit,” this is what he means. We need to allow the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to see newly and differently, more intuitively, more spiritually, and more vividly. What will we see? We will see Jesus. We will see the truth of his salvation promise. We will become aware of God’s presence in our lives and in the world. We will become aware that the kingdom of God is all ...

28. Yada, Yada, Yada!

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Anyone in a human relationship knows that! Why do we feel attracted more to some people and less to others? Why do we choose the partners and spouses we choose and allow to know us in deep and personal ways? Why do we trust some people intuitively? Why do the hairs stand up on the back of our necks when we encounter someone we feel might harm us? Human beings have a capacity to “know” that goes far beyond knowing “about” things. We have the ability to “know” deeply, to feel deeply, to trust ...

29. Making Our Feelings Known

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... is in fact to withhold part of life from the sovereignty of God. 3 The frank language of Job taking God to task and seeking to have a trial before God so that he can lay his feelings bare is something the church and the Christian have intuitively avoided. The reason for such avoidance of speech as seen in Job and other biblical writers is that it leads one into the dangerous acknowledgment of how life really is. Through such speech Job leads us into the presence of God where everything is not polite and ...

30. You Can Be Like Children

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... of the Christian faith is this: Jesus loves me, this I now for the Bible tells me so." Children teach great lessons about faith ... especially, I suspect, because they get to the heart of the matter. Children more than anyone else seem to understand intuitively that at the heart of Christianity is Jesus -- his life, his death and his relationship with us. 3 -- Additionally, children share powerful secrets about HOW WE ARE MEANT TO DEAL WITH ONE ANOTHER. My first seven years were spent on a street called ...

31. Crackpots

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... It's good for business, and good for life. At the meeting they gave us a sheet called "Table Talk," things business people need to think about and talk about. It read, in part; "What are your senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, intuition!) telling you about: the things that are breaking down ... falling apart ... going away. The things that are in chaos ... disorder ...turbulence ...fluctuation. The new things that are emerging ... coming forth ... becoming evident!" That's more than a good way to look at ...

32. Expecting the Unexpected

Judges 4:1-24

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... the rather innovative (though I would guess somewhat arduous) technique of hammering a tent-peg through the temple and nailing his head to the ground! Of course, upon hearing the news, Deborah is as pleased as can be. Call it divine prophecy, call it woman's intuition, call it what you like -- but she had predicted it from the very beginning. And while she doesn't exactly dance on Sisera's grave, Deborah does break into a triumphant 31-verse song, glorifying the entire gruesome episode. It isn't easy to be ...

33. Seeing The Whole Person

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David Belgum

... have known this before even addressing her; but he does not focus on this or that stigma, failure, or mistake. He just begins by recognizing her as a person, a person with a bucket that can bring up water from Jacob's well. The Samaritan woman intuitively recognizes the symbolism of some kind of living water and finally asks a favor in return. She had been to the well often (five times to the marriage well) and had come away still thirsty for a fulfilling life, a refreshing fellowship. Maybe she had not ...

34. "Unless A Grain Of Wheat ..."

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... about it so she just lay down in the snow and died. This attitude permeated her every experience. She repudiated the idea that she could do anything about it and was constantly defeated by her own sense of inadequacy and her terror of life itself. Her intuition was correct. Her mother went away. There was a divorce, and the child was put in a boarding school. Forty years later the very sorrow of her loss worked its miracle, for what we experience is ours forever. She went into the darkness and found there ...

35. A Matter Of Trust

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... voice of Herod sticks in their minds. They do not return to Jerusalem. A dream, warning them not to return to Herod, confirms their dis-ease. They take a back road out of town, and make their way across the desert. Their dream was right, as was their intuition. Herod was not to be trusted. He had tried to enlist them in his cause, but they had resisted. Powerful people intent on violence often try to co-opt religion. Every king, or president or chairman wants the blessing of God on whatever war is at hand ...

36. The Bread That Endures

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... , deep down inside, we really know that focussing on material things does not really satisfy the sharpest hungers of our souls. Not many of us are under the illusion that our deepest yearnings can be satisfied by the things we buy. We know instinctively and intuitively that when Jesus says "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word which comes from the mouth of God," he is absolutely correct. We know, too, that Frederick Buechner is correct when he writes that when we eat bread we acknowledge our ...

37. Running Around The Empty Tomb

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of course, the answer is obvious. Mary, Peter and the beloved disciple would probably say that the reason why they have greeted this first Easter with instantaneous wind sprints is because of the fear and the excitement of it all, because they sensed intuitively that the moment was filled with electricity, dread and urgency. Like people who have been startled by a sudden, sharp clap of thunder on a clear, blue day, they did not immediately know exactly what had happened, but they spontaneously responded by ...

38. Epiphany 2

Jn 1:29-42 · 1 Cor 1:1-9 · Is 49:1-7 · Ps 27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... not entirely regret participating in the riot. The audience in the studio was agitated with Washington because they felt he wasn't really sorry for what he had done, that he was not really ready to confess that he had done wrong. I think that the audience intuitively understood that Mr. Washington could not rise above his past sins until he owned them and confessed them. This is not a racial issue; it is a spiritual matter. What it boils down to is this: We don't need a scapegoat; we need to lay our sins ...

39. Proper 12

Mt 13:31-33, 44-52 · Rom 8:26-39 · 1 Ki 3:5-12 · Ps 105

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... result of diligent searching. Jesus taught: "Seek and you shall find ..." Contrary to the first parable, where the treasure finder had no point of comparison, this merchant had seen plenty of pearls and chose this one above all the others. The first man intuitively recognized the value of his treasure, while the second was convinced of its worth by shopping around. Old and new treasure. In verses 51-52, Jesus teaches that the kingdom of God is composed of treasure old and new. The wise person resembles the ...

40. Christmas 2

Mt 2:13-23 · Jn 1:1-18 · Eph 1:3-14 · Jer 31:7-14 · Is 61:10--62:3 · Ps 147

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... The God incarnate in Jesus is also incarnate in those who know Jesus. We too are the living word of God through whom God seeks to disclose his love and grace. Life and light. From the dawn of time, humans have worshipped the light, realizing intuitively what we now understand scientifically, that there is no life without light. Genesis proclaims this truth also; light is the first order of creation. The prologue of John implies that the light was present in the Logos from the beginning, but the fullness of ...

41. Peanuts For Breakfast

Romans 14:1--15:13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... all-church breakfast. Of course, by the time I realized this, my route to helping the children discover the meaning of the text was already planned, so I followed it despite the unexpected turn events had taken. It is the nature of grace that following my intuition, what my heart said was right, did, in fact, accomplish the desired objective. As soon as the children have come to the front of the sanctuary, I ask how many of them went to the breakfast that morning. Virtually all of them raise their hands. "I ...

42. The TV Audience

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... of the world are formed in far more complicated ways than merely by rational observation and judgment," Patricia Wilson-Kastner urges preachers to take into account these new insights. We have become increasingly receptive to the enormous importance of our more intuitive side, to the centrality of the emotions, and to the way we express our awareness in images, pictures, and stories, which are all laden with feelings as well as intellectual assessments ... If we wish to be responsible preachers, then we ...

43. Creative Preaching

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... . By then the congregation realized it had all been prepared beforehand, but probably no one who was there will forget that sermon. Richard Jensen calls these kinds of creative ideas "stereo preaching," creative preaching which communicates to both the literal left side of the brain as well as the more intuitive right side.55 Creative and nontraditional preaching done well on occasion can be enormously helpful to convey the gospel in fresh ways.

44. A Continuing Presence

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... which had caused an impossible situation to take a turn for the better ... just when your own finely laid calculations were at the point of collapse. Something happened. A new direction, a different perspective, another alternative emerged from the fog. Call it intuition. Call it inspired genius. Call it coincidence. Or, claim the promise our Lord made to his own, and call it the guidance of the Holy Spirit. II. The Spirit Glorifies Christ You are familiar with the towering signs commonly seen alongside ...

45. From Inferiority To Fulfillment

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... tried to convey God's affirmation by finding many ways to show the boy his delight in his being. The counselor tried to give the boy "a place to be." While most of us do not experience this pain of separation to the extent of this troubled teenager, we intuitively identify with his feeling of a lack of a home and his lack of love. Therefore, like Israel of old and like the boy, we too need to hear the words, "Yahweh takes delight in you (Isaiah 62:4)." My Delight There is nothing more important for young ...

46. Under The Wings Of The Almighty

Ruth 2:1-23

Sermon

Sims Robert

... him; they knew the dynamite was getting ready to explode. The little boy’s mother came on the scene and at a glance realized what was happening. She did not call out to her son nor rush out to get him. In her mother’s love and intuition she simply knelt down, opened her arms wide and smiled at him, beckoning him to come. Instantly the little boy ran toward his mother. The dynamite exploded, sending a shockwave reverberating off the walls of the canyon, but the little boy was safe in his mother’s ...

47. For a Mother Who Died in Traffic

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

William Luoma

... ? "Don't be worried and upset." It may have been a time when, as a child, one of you was sick. It may have been a time when things weren't going well for you. It may have been a time of a minor crisis in your life, when she intuitively told you, "This, too, will pass. Don't be so worried." It is Jesus who said these words. He said them for the benefit of all of us who are often worried and upset. He said them for people like us who slam doors when we're angry, and who ...

48. Rag Doll #37

Drama

Edward Long

... up and examines it proudly). Every year you have that insight about what girl or boy needs a doll; but so far, this year, Pa, you haven't said "boo" about it ... MR McKENZIE: Nope. Ma, I just don't know. My mind tells me one thing, and my intuition hasn't changed since before Thanksgiving; but ... it just doesn't sound ... or seem ... or feel right. (Warms hands by the stove and thinks). Well ... MRS. McKENZIE: Well, you gonna let me in on it or not? MR. McKENZIE: The person who's been on my mind is Laura ...

49. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Carl Jech

... to get along much better with one another if we become aware of the fact that, for example, the personality type of most clergy is quite different from the personality type found among most parishoners. Most clergy are Intuitives (focusing on hunches, speculation, inspiration, fantasy, ingenuity and imagination), while most parishioners are Sensates (focusing on guidance from past experiences, realism, and down-to-earth practicality.) I know of a mother and son whose relationship was greatly improved ...

50. What the End Will Be Like

Zephaniah 1:4-13

Sermon

... , when he died in 1977. He wrote: The great white wolf howled until her ululations echoed against the stars. She waited, but there was no response from the ravine, from thicket, from the far-off mountains. Her mate tried in his turn to break the silence and intuitively to awake the pack. There was silence for the simple reason there was no pack to answer ... They could not know but a vast loneliness had begun to descend upon them - the loneliness of a dying species. The Ice Age had ended. No, not quite, for ...

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